A Closer Look

The Team Group T-Force Dark Z sticks feature a classic T-Force-winged profile, with details stamped into the heat spreader to produce an association with knight armor.


My Team Group T-Force Dark Z sample has a deep red aluminium heatsink; it is also available in gray.


"Dark Z" is printed in a silvery white font on the front-right side. Except for the specification sticker in the center, the back of the sticks are unadorned.


The specifications on the Team Group T-Force Dark Z are a 3600 MHz XMP profile at 18-22-22-42 and 1.35 V, which is great for new AMD adopters.


The T-Force logo sits front and center, finished in a mirror silver, a great contrast to the metallic red of the heatspreader. The top of each stick also has "T-Force" printed in silver white.


The Team Group T-Force Dark Z sticks are single-sided.


The markings on the ICs seem to be Team Group specific, although Thaiphoon shows that these are Hynix CJR chips.


I like to weigh a stick from each kit I get as the difference in mass can be pretty drastic between kits. Mass is not the best indicator of cooling efficiency because material can matter, and of course, heat dissipation is reliant on surface area, not volume or mass. That said, it is still interesting to compare.

The Team Group T-Force Dark Z comes in at 40.34 g on my scale. For height, the Team Group T-Force Dark Z comes in at just over 43.44 mm with my calipers, a little below the average 45–50 mm range.